Two young children -- a 4-year-old and a 7-year-old -- were hurt after they were shot while sitting in the back seat of a car in Newark, NJ, during a drive-by shooting, police said.
The bullets started flying around 6 p.m. Wednesday, during the peak of the evening rush hour, according to police. The children, a 4-year-old and a 7-year-old, were in the back seat of a Jeep and stopped in traffic on Irving Turner Boulevard when another car pulled up along side them.
The people in the other vehicle started shooting, striking the driver — the 30-year-old boyfriend of the children's mother — multiple times, police said. A security guard at a nearby complex helped get the family to the emergency room. "I seen the mother jump out the car crying...she came to me asking for help," said Lamont Lanham."I heard the kids crying in the back. I looked in the backseat I saw the kids bloody...I just made a path and got them to the hospital, soon as a I can."
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